For others, it’s a preposterously small thing-bad zoom lighting, a weird substitution in a grocery delivery-that finally sent everything toppling over. We lose a job, an elderly parent starts coughing, a once-in-a-century storm hits. For some of us, the crash happens because of a big thing. Every day, every week, every month in this mobius strip of unending pandemic time you stack more and more onto the pile and, by some actual living miracle, every day it doesn't all topple over until finally, one day, it does.Įvery parent- every single parent-has known the crash this year. Trying to do your job, trying to keep the kids motivated in Zoom school, trying to keep everyone healthy, trying to keep the bills paid and the lights on and the dishes washed and everyone fed with whatever groceries were available that week. Montinique Monroe // Getty ImagesĪs a parent living through the pandemic, everything is a balance right now: spinning plates stacked high with a towering collection of impossible things. But nearly a year in, let’s face it: “good” isn’t even on the scale.Īustin residents lined up for food on Wednesday as a historic deep freeze gripped the state. It’s been eleven months since we went inside because of the pandemic-I’ll “celebrate” a year on March 13-and every day since I try to be a good parent just like Ted Cruz. They hate it, I hate it, but come on, there’s a pandemic happening: what kind of asshole would jet off to Cancun? I try to be a good dad as well, that's why my kids haven't gone on a vacation-snow day or not-for a year now. He and his family didn’t fly to Cancun, instead they opened their home to a colleague who had to abandon her frozen one. That’s why, as an Austin resident, he’s been reduced to melting snow in a bathtub to wash his family’s dishes every day. My friend Travis is trying to be a good dad, too.
Sure, abandoning millions of his constituents might look bad, but, as Cruz explained, "when you've got two girls who have been cold for two days and haven't had heat or power and they're saying 'Hey look, we don't have school, let's get out of here,' I think there are a lot of parents who'd think, 'If I can do this, great.'" Which he said after hastily returning to the States, leaving his family behind at the Ritz Carlton. Ted Cruz wants to be a “good dad.” He said so on Thursday, when he was caught sneaking down to sunny Cancun to escape the deep freeze that's squeezing the life out of Texas, the state he claims to represent in the U.S.
0 kommentar(er)
